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This really frustrating, kinda cute girl I've been pursuing on and off, emailed me after the Padres game yesterday, and I told her we should make out to cheer each other up. She laughed it off, and so I need never speak to her again, except for work-related reasons. I never knew if she was really interested or not, so I threw that out there, and now I know.
Great book: The Men Who Stare At Goats, which is a lively history of the Earth First Battalion, a government entity exploring ideas with military applications such as invisibility and the power to stop the hearts of animals with one's mind. There are connections to the Army's popular, "Be All That You Can Be" advertising campaign, Soldier of Fortune magazine, and al-Qaeda. It's pretty incredible.
I'm so out of touch with comics I ordered a Madman tpb thinking it was a collection of a new miniseries, when in fact it's just a collection of the first couple minis, which I already have in the Madman Gargantua. That pisses me off.
The Darwyn Cooke interview in The Comics Journal interview is really good, even if Markisan Naso isn't the most academic of interviewers. I appreciate that Cooke, who has a reputation as not the easiest guy to deal with, owns up to not being the easiest guy to deal with in his work with Ed Brubaker on the first story arc of Catwoman. I think that was a happy accident of two very talented guys who couldn't help but do something incredible, even if it wasn't mutually 100% satisfying to either. It's like it's more for the fans than them.
The longest-in-gestation review I've ever done, so far, is a twofer of Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur and Silver Star. Isn't that weird? The Devil Dinosaur part was easy, and I did a little of Silver Star last night, but for whatever reason it's taking a while to pull together.
Not sure I've mentioned this before, but you really need to find Bill Murray's guest analyst slot on an '80s Chicago Cubs game, alongside Steve Stone, on YouTube. It's wonderful, especially for a Chicagoan like me. Right now, on my desk calendar in front of me, I wrote down a great name mentioned during the broadcast: Dick Stello. Also under that name is a misspelling noticed on an Amazon.com customer comment posting: Lou Garrest, as in Lou Garrest disease. I bet if he were here today, Lou Garrest would flee like the lunkiest mange on the fate of the urn.
This really frustrating, kinda cute girl I've been pursuing on and off, emailed me after the Padres game yesterday, and I told her we should make out to cheer each other up. She laughed it off, and so I need never speak to her again, except for work-related reasons. I never knew if she was really interested or not, so I threw that out there, and now I know.
Great book: The Men Who Stare At Goats, which is a lively history of the Earth First Battalion, a government entity exploring ideas with military applications such as invisibility and the power to stop the hearts of animals with one's mind. There are connections to the Army's popular, "Be All That You Can Be" advertising campaign, Soldier of Fortune magazine, and al-Qaeda. It's pretty incredible.
I'm so out of touch with comics I ordered a Madman tpb thinking it was a collection of a new miniseries, when in fact it's just a collection of the first couple minis, which I already have in the Madman Gargantua. That pisses me off.
The Darwyn Cooke interview in The Comics Journal interview is really good, even if Markisan Naso isn't the most academic of interviewers. I appreciate that Cooke, who has a reputation as not the easiest guy to deal with, owns up to not being the easiest guy to deal with in his work with Ed Brubaker on the first story arc of Catwoman. I think that was a happy accident of two very talented guys who couldn't help but do something incredible, even if it wasn't mutually 100% satisfying to either. It's like it's more for the fans than them.
The longest-in-gestation review I've ever done, so far, is a twofer of Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur and Silver Star. Isn't that weird? The Devil Dinosaur part was easy, and I did a little of Silver Star last night, but for whatever reason it's taking a while to pull together.
Not sure I've mentioned this before, but you really need to find Bill Murray's guest analyst slot on an '80s Chicago Cubs game, alongside Steve Stone, on YouTube. It's wonderful, especially for a Chicagoan like me. Right now, on my desk calendar in front of me, I wrote down a great name mentioned during the broadcast: Dick Stello. Also under that name is a misspelling noticed on an Amazon.com customer comment posting: Lou Garrest, as in Lou Garrest disease. I bet if he were here today, Lou Garrest would flee like the lunkiest mange on the fate of the urn.
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Stone Pony!
/joe
Stone Pony, heh. I liked him a lot more after watching that, because I really felt he was just doing his duty to be square and try to keep Murray reined in, but that he was clearly enjoying it.
"This really frustrating, kinda cute girl I've been pursuing on and off, emailed me after the Padres game yesterday, and I told her we should make out to cheer each other up. She laughed it off, and so I need never speak to her again, except for work-related reasons. I never knew if she was really interested or not, so I threw that out there, and now I know."
Maybe this girl you were pursuing doesn't think relationships in the workplace are appropiate and was only looking for a friendship. Also if this person isn't aware of how you were taking the friendship they may think it is odd that you just stop talking to them, wouldn't you think? I personally know that every girl out there that talks to a guy is not always interested in dating them or being more then just friends with them especially when it comes to guys they work with.
Based on your comments, I should clarify that I'd asked her out before, gone out for drinks once, but had not gotten her to agree to go out again. That is, she agreed in principle, but was always tired or whatever. So what I said to her couldn't have been a surprise; I just wanted to see how she responded so I could gauge if she was interested at all. It's not that I won't talk to her, I will, but I was always pretty clear that I wasn't looking for a friend.
Just to get this right you were not sure if the girl you were pursuing was interested in you in more then friends but she was suppose to know you were because you went out to drinks once and you have asked her out? How do you know she did not take your invites as a friendly invite and not a date? I don’t really know your situation but I have personally been a situation similar to this and I never knew what the guys’ intent was, but mine was only to be friends. Yes he did make some uncomfortable remarks here and there but I just blew them off and thought it was just his personality. To make a long story short it made things extremely uncomfortable and awkward at work and I ended up leaving the company due to his acts so I was just giving some helpful advice. Unless you came out and said I do NOT want to just be friend with you and would like to pursue a relationship with you to this girl at work and she felt the same way, you don’t know that she actually knew you wanted to be more than friends.
Meghan
Hi Meghan. I suppose, judging from your own similar experience, it's possible I wasn't 100% clear, but I dunno...If this blog is evidence of anything, I'm a fairly open person, perhaps to a fault. I think you are better off to assume that if a guy is showing interest in you, he's interested in more than just friendship, if we define "interest" as asking you to do things one-on-one and making comments that acknowledge how you look, have sexual connotations, or if he makes any kind of inquiries to find out your relationship status. Especially at work. I'm not saying guys can't have female friends--I have several, some in relationships and some not--but most of the ones I have with single women began when either one or both of us was already in a relationship, so that that natural suspicion that there is a sexual motive to the two of you hanging out is eliminated, or at least diminished.
I don't know your work situation, but I hope if it was a job you cared about you made your discomfort known, to him and, if things didn't stop, to his supervisor. I used to go to lunch every week with a really attractive coworker who was married to a longtime friend of mine, and some male coworkers would kind of wink or imply that we were up to no good, which wasn't at all the case, but that is something a guy has to consider when he has a platonic relationship with a female coworker. A similar thing occurred with a single coworker I would go for walks with on breaks--I had an initial attraction to her but realized quickly there was no interest there, but we had a nice big brother/little sister kind of thing going for a while, despite other coworkers always thinking I was still pursuing her. It's pretty tough for attractive women at work in that way, the insinuations.
A pretty good way to figure out a guy's motives, if you don't want to come right out and ask him, is if he asks you to do something, suggest instead to go out for happy hour with other coworkers. If he goes anyway, either he's cool with being friends or is biding his time, but either way you can get a better read on him outside the office, with a drink or two in him, and you're safe if he acts out of line.
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